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Sunday, 8 November 2009

Allied army additions

First is Pack's brigade, containing some fine highlanders of the Black Watch, supported by the Royal Scots. Here is a closer shot, showing my attempts to paint tartan on the kilts.

Second base is one of Hanoverian Landwehr. The flags are somewhat conjectural and/or simplified. The figures are british in stovepipe for the rank-and-file, with british in belgic shako for the officer and standard bearer

here is a shot of the massed ranks from the rear:

The British have been strengthened by adding the Scots Greys. I have attempted to capture the essence of Lady Butler's painting, so they are not as closely ranked as I normally base cavalry. They should stand out on the battlefield.

Here is the player's eye view (i.e.the rear of the unit)

I have also finished off the Dutch Belgian Heavy Cavalry Division with the additon of the Dutch Carabiniers (using SYW Prussian figures):

and from the side to show some extra detail:

Lastly, the Brunswick cavalry brigade - hussars and uhlans. The former are british hussar figures in shako and the latter are austrian uhlan figures:

I'm currently in the middle of a "step-by-step" guide to painting napoleonic british troops for Peter at Baccus to go on his website. I'll hopefully have all the painting and photography done by the weekend!

How do you do it these minatures are amazing, I've never had the nerve to Tackle 6mm but they just look great. I just love Napoleonic minatures. I've only just started my blog a week ago maybe you'rd like to pop over and see what you think.Cheers Kenthttp://kentspainting15mm.blogspot.com/

These just look amazing, I really do find them inspiring. I am going to wait till Baccus do the resculpt of their Austrians, and do them for Polemos. Hopefully I can get some way to getting a similar result.

very impressive, when people ask me why I am doing 6mm,I point them to your site, so they can see what is possible. I aim to reach something similar ... http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/dougmelville/British%20napoleonic/?action=view&current=gordons3.jpg

Hi James, for complex scenarios I make laminated labels and glue them to the back of thevbase. There are blog posts showing this.Storage is in plastic boxes from Ikea designed to slide in and out of wooden frames.

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About Me

Member of the Newark Irregulars wargaming club since 1996, gaming since about 1984. I co-wrote the WAB supplement "The Age of Arthur" with my good friend James Morris. I'm interested in most wargaming periods but my favourites are AWI and Grand-tactical Napoleonics.
1 wife, 2 daughters, 2 guinea pigs.